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2024-2025 USAP Field Season
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Principal Investigator	Event No.	Project Title
Principal Investigator Index
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Albert, Mary R	T-150-M	Ice Drilling Program (IDP)
Arrigo, Kevin	O-288-N	Collaborative Research: Understanding the massive phytoplankton blooms over the Australian-Antarctic Ridge
Ballard, Grant	B-200-M	Population growth at the southern extreme: Effects of early life conditions on Adélie penguin individuals and colonies
Bertrand, Paul A	G-078-M	Dry Valley seismic project
Blom, Lukas J	T-396-M	Operation and maintenance of a CTBT class infrasound array at Windless Bight
Bristow, William	A-369-M/S	Antarctic SuperDARN research, operations, and system enhancements
Carlstrom, John	A-379-S	South Pole Telescope (SPT) operations and data products
Cassano, John	O-400-M	Observing the atmospheric boundary over the West Antarctic ice sheet
Chu, Xinzhao	A-123-M	Collaborative Research: Fe and Na LiDAR investigations of geospace-atmosphere temperature, composition, chemistry, and dynamics at McMurdo, Antarctica
Cimino, Megan A	C-013-P	PAL-LTER: Ecological response to "Press-Pulse" disturbances along a rapidly changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Clem, John M	A-148-M/S	AESOP-lite: Anti-Electron Sub-Orbital Payload – Low Energy
Coffin, Richard B	O-269-N	Collaborative Research: Gas hydrate contribution to the Ross Sea carbon budget; Shallow sediment to water column; Present and future
Conde, Mark Gerard	A-343-M/S	Local-scale drivers and responses of thermospheric weather above Antarctica
Dickson, Jay NMI	T-434-M	The Polar Geospatial Information Center: joint support
Elosegui, Pedro NMI	D-550-M	A new instrument and measurement approach to cryo-seismogeodesy: Monitoring Antarctic ice shelf stability using ice penetrators
Emslie, Steven D	B-034-M	Using multiple stable isotopes to investigate middle to late Holocene ecological responses by Adélie penguins in the Ross Sea
Franco, Hugo	A-145-M	NASA Long Duration Balloon (LDB) support program
Friedlaender, Ari Seth	C-024-P	PAL-LTER: Ecological Response to "Press-Pulse" Disturbances Along a Rapidly Changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Gerken, Sarah Anne	B-010-N	Collaborative Research: ANT LIA Cumacean -Omics to Measure Mode of Adaptation to Antarctica (COMMAA)
Gooseff, Michael N	C-505-M	MCM-LTER: MCM6 - The roles of legacy and ecological connectivity in a polar desert ecosystem
Graham, Rebecca Robinson	B-042-N	Collaborative Research: The roles of seasonality, silicification, and alteration in nitrogen and silicon isotope paleo-proxy variability
Grubisic, Vanda	O-264-P	Collection of atmospheric air for the NOAA/Global Monitoring Division (GMD) worldwide flask-sampling network
Grubisic, Vanda	O-257-M/S	Ultra-Violet (UV) measurements at McMurdo Station for the NOAA/Global Monitoring Division (GMD) Antarctic UV network
Hailey, Charles James	A-132-M	GAPS (General AntiParticle Spectrometer) Experiment: A Search for Dark Matter Using Low Energy Antiprotons and Antideuterons
Halzen, Francis	A-333-S	Management and operations of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory 2021-2026
Harris, Mark	T-927-M	NASA / McMurdo Ground Station (MG1)
Higgins, John A	I-187-M	STC: Center for OLDest Ice EXploration (COLDEX): Surface Geophysics Surveys, East Antarctic Plateau
Hummon, Julia M	T-933-N	University of Hawaii Data Acquisition System (UHDAS) support
Karle, Albrecht	A-334-M/S	Collaborative Research: IceCube Upgrade: An IceCube extension for precision neutrino physics and astrophysics
Kenyon, Samantha Parry	X-279-M	Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: CCRI: New: Distributed Space and Terrestrial Networking Infrastructure for Multi-Constellation Coexistence
Khan, Alia Lauren	B-466-E	CAREER: Coastal Antarctic snow algae and light absorbing particles: snowmelt, climate, and ecosystem impacts
Kim, Hyomin NMI	A-111-M/P/S	The next generation of Geospace research facilities at South Pole, McMurdo, and Palmer Stations
Kim, Hyomin NMI	A-108-E	Collaborative Research: Investigation of deep polar cap dynamics using an autonomous instrument network
Kingslake, Jonathan	I-347-E	NSFGEO-NERC: Investigating the direct influence of meltwater on Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics
LaBelle, James	A-128-S	First Conjugate-station studies and continued satellite-conjunction studies of LF/MF/HF auroral radio emissions at South Pole
Lazzara, Matthew	O-283-M	Collaborative Research: Antarctic automatic weather station program
Levy, Joseph	G-083-M	CAREER: Linking cold desert groundwater to thermokarst & chemical weathering in partnership with the Geoscience UAV Academy
Lubin, Dan	O-325-P	Collaborative Research: Antarctic Low Cloud Interaction with Natural Aerosol (ALCINA)
Mattioli, Glen NMI	T-312-M	EarthScope SAGE: Erebus Backbone Network Project
McDonald, Birgitte I	B-245-M	CAREER: Foraging ecology and physiology of Emperor penguins in the Ross Sea
Melendy, Renee	T-940-M	Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) activities: McMurdo Shear Zone
Melendy, Renee	T-941-M	Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) support: Leverett Glacier
Melendy, Renee	T-942-S	Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) support: South Pole Station
Melendy, Renee	T-946-M/S	Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Engineering Support for Antarctic Facilities
Morgan, Daniel Jones	G-049-M	Unlocking the glacial history of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica by fingerprinting glacial tills with detrital zircon U-Pb age populations
Munro, David Russel	O-214-N	Investigating biogeochemical fluxes and linkages to climate change with multi-scale observations in the Drake Passage
Patterson, Molly O'Rourke	G-070-M	Collaborative Research: Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Celsius (SWAIS 2C)
Pautet, Pierre-Dominique	A-119-M/S	Pan-Antarctic investigations of mesospheric wave dynamics and influences using the ANGWIN Network
Petrenko, Vasilii Victorovich	I-159-E	Using new ice cores from Dome C to test the assumption of a constant galactic cosmic ray flux and improve understanding of the Holocene methane budget
Pettit, Joseph R	T-295-M	EarthScope GAGE high-precision GPS and ground-based light detection and ranging (LiDAR) support
Pettit, Joseph R	T-299-M	EarthScope SAGE seismic support
Pryke, Clement	A-149-S	Imaging the beginning of time from the South Pole: Completing the BICEP array survey
Risien, Julie Marie	W-491-N	Polar STEAM Artists, Writers, and Educators
Rotella, Jay	B-009-M	Collaborative Research: The drivers and role of immigration in the dynamics of the largest population of Weddell seals in Antarctica under changing conditions
Salesky, Scott Thomas	O-315-M	Collaborative Research: Snow transport in katabatic winds and implications for the Antarctic surface mass balance: observations, theory, and numerical modeling
Schofield, Oscar	C-019-P	PAL-LTER: Ecological response to "Press-Pulse" disturbances along a rapidly changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Seunarine, Surujhdeo	A-118-S	Collaborative Research: The Simpson Neutron Monitor Network
Shen, Weisen	G-298-M/S	A comprehensive seismic investigation to the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the South Pole, East Antarctica
Steinberg, Deborah	C-020-P	PAL-LTER: Ecological response to "Press-Pulse" disturbances along a rapidly changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Sumner, Dawn Yvonne	B-047-M	Seasonal primary productivity and nitrogen cycling in photosynthetic mats, Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys
Swanger, Kate	G-064-M	Collaborative Research: Holocene and late Pleistocene stream deposition in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica as a proxy for glacial meltwater and paleoclimate
Thurber, Andrew	B-249-M	CAREER: Ecosystem impacts of microbial succession and production at Antarctic methane seeps
Tominaga, Masako NMI	G-082-N	Collaborative Research: Heat source and flux distributions in the Western Ross Sea seafloor
van Gestel, Natasja	B-086-P	Antarctica as a model system for responses of terrestrial carbon balance to warming
Van Mooy, Benjamin	C-045-P	PAL-LTER: Ecological response to "Press-Pulse" disturbances along a rapidly changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Warner, Jacob	B-004-M	Collaborative Research: Genomic mechanisms controlling the slow development of the Antarctic urchin Sterechinus neumayeri
Williams, David G	T-998-P	Operation and maintenance of a CTBT radionuclide monitoring station at Palmer Station
Wilson, David NMI	G-090-P/S	Global seismograph station (GSN) at South Pole Station, Palmer Station and Scott Base
Wilson, Terry	G-079-M	Collaborative Research: Investigating Ice Sheet - Solid Earth Feedbacks in West Antarctica: Implications for ice sheet evolution and stability
Winebrenner, Dale nmi	I-186-M/S	STC: Center for OLDest Ice EXploration (COLDEX): Surface Geophysics Surveys, East Antarctic Plateau
Zappa, Christopher	O-401-E	Formation, transformation, and northward spreading of dense saline water derived from Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica
Zhan, Zhongwen	A-137-S	Pilot fiber seismic networks at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
Zimmerer, Matthew Joseph	G-065-M	Constraining West Antarctic Ice Sheet elevation during the last interglacial
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